“If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.”
Joe Messina
How did regular guy Joe Messina get into talk radio, find and grow his audience to more than 45K listeners an hour on 56-plus stations across the country?
Pretty much the same way he has done everything else, from his rough start as kid on the streets of blighted Boston neighborhood and driving cabs in L.A. through his years as an executive in Fortune 100 corporate America, [Regional Manager at Johnson Controls, Siemens, Microsoft, Amex] and more recently as a company-building entrepreneur and Trustee of the local school board.
Messina never expected or waited for anyone to give him anything. He decided what he wanted, figured out how to get it, and made it happen. With encouragement from his family (he and wife Tammy have four kids), friends and associates, Messina got into radio in 2010 to express and share his views about current events, politics and the culture wars with people in other communities. He built a broadcast studio, took to the airwaves and the Web, discovered he wasn’t alone, and engaged and built his community and sponsorships.